Ozone mean, 7*10, was but —"01 below the average. Saturation (10) was 

 registered 5 times. 



Elcctvicitif had 17 positives with tension ranging from 3'5 to 6, and 35 

 negatives with tension from 2 to 7, and nils. Neither thunder nor liyhlning 

 were observed. An Aurora was seen on the evening of the I'ith. 



The Deaths numbered 40 only, being -- 13'/ 1,-, less than tlie average of the 

 previous 1;") yeais. C)nly February 1 807 had fewer, i.e., 34, and 1800 had 

 40 also. The highest February was that of 1850, i.e., 75. Two of the deaths 

 were in visitors from Victoria. Under one year old there were 13 deaths ; 

 from 1 to 5 there were 4 ; from 5 to 10 none ; fiom 10 to 15 there were 2 ; 

 from 15 to 20 there was 1. Thus exactly half the deaths of the month were 

 under 20 years old. From 20 to 00 there were only 7 deaths, at 60 Hud all 

 ages above there were 13, the oldest being a man aged 100 who h;ul been in 

 these colonics 07 years, and whose death was caused by the accidental fracture 

 of his thigh-bone. 



In the Zi/nuitic class of diseases there were 13 deaths, all from bowel com- 

 plaints at and under twelve months old. By the new Nomenclature of 

 Diseases of the Royal College of Physicians of London now generally 

 adopted, Diarrhoea, which constituted 11 out of the 13 cases, would be classed 

 under diseases of the Digestive System amongst diseases of the intestines, 

 and not under tlie head of " Miasmatic" or '• General Diseases." During the 

 summer months in Tasmania, diarrhoea always jirevails with more or less 

 fatality amongst young children, and occasionally as an epidemic. In the 

 Cachectic or Constitutional class of diseases there were 5 deaths, 4 from 

 cancerous affections of various organs, one from Consumption, a man aged 27 

 born in Tasmania. In diseases of the Brain and Nervous System there were 

 9 deaths ; in diseases of the Heart, &c. 2 ; in the Lungs, &c., only 1 ; Stomachy 

 &c., only 1; Urinary organs, 1 ; hones, &c., 1 ; developmental, 1 ; old age, 

 4 ; violence, 2. There were no Inquests. In the Hospital there were 11 

 deaths, one belonging to another registration district. At the Cascades 

 establishment a man aged 81 died. At the Brickfields Invalid Asylum 3 men 

 died, aged respectively GO, 72, 81. 



